11 Monday Mar 2024
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beautiful, big girl pants, blessed, bouquet, cut, family, flowers, happy, hyacinth, moments, nature, plants, purple, scent, widow
yesterday I received a beautiful bouquet of hyacinths… I’ve never had them as cut flowers, always in soil…
what a lovely treat…
they are in a vase on the living room table and I am looking forward to them opening and scenting the house…
09 Saturday Mar 2024
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amount, big girl pants, blessed, driveway, housemate, moments, nature, shovelled, snow, snowfall, weather, widow
the weather has been quite silly lately…
there was hardly any snow on the ground last week, but then it snowed all afternoon on Wednesday…
a lot of snow came down… the only thing I shovelled then was a path to the hot tub…
very late that night my housemate shovelled the sidewalk and two-thirds of the driveway…
Friday I did about half of the bottom of the driveway as my friend would be picking me up on Saturday…
I was so proud that it only took me about fifteen minutes… and then my housemate did the same amount in five minutes…
kids, lol…
08 Friday Mar 2024
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accountant, beloved, big girl pants, blessed, complete, documentation, happy, memories, moments, preparation, taxes, Technology, widow
have spent time over the last week gathering and preparing all of the information required to complete my 2023 taxes…
getting the documentation ready always reminds me of how difficult doing this work was for my beloved… he really disliked getting the bits and pieces collected…
for the last few years of his life we had others complete the paperwork, although it was still a problem to put it together…
it still surprises me how simple it is for me now… for the first few years after he died, I would gather up paper bits and courier them to my amazing accountant, who would then process everything…
then she connected me to this great technology where I was able to upload all the information and they complete and submit it all online…
it still takes a bit of work to scan, save, and upload everything, but I am getting better at it each year…
and, it is done;-)…
06 Wednesday Mar 2024
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"A", beloved, big girl pants, blessed, breakfast, family, food, grandson, health, memories, moments, passing, routine, slippery, snow, treat, walk, weather, widow
went for a walk on Sunday morning… the front steps were covered with slippery ice pellets, so we walked carefully…
the temperature was around 0°C and it felt like -8°C… not bad and the wind was behind us as we walked towards Portage…
we arrived at the “A” and had a lovely breakfast…
it has been many months since I’ve been there and it was a nice treat…
breakfast here used to be one of our regular activities on the weekends… I would walk over and my beloved would drive… after breakfast we would head out in the car to do errands or take a drive…
it was nice to eat here this week as we come to the anniversary of his passing…
I sure do miss him…
02 Saturday Mar 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, body soap, faint, family, grandson, health, hint, moments, pipe, scent, scentless, widow
I am particularly sensitive to scents so the products I use are usually scentless – as much as possible…
lately I’ve been catching a hint of a scent as I walk through the main floor hallway…
it reminds me of pipe smoke, a scent that I have enjoyed as it makes me think of some very special people;-)…
but, I haven’t been able to figure out where it was coming from…
until today…
my housemate has a new bar soap and the scent is not in the bathroom, but in the hall…
it is very faint so was hard to track down… but I am always happy when I figure it out;-)…
01 Friday Mar 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, couch, furniture, grandson, moments, narrow, plants, search, shopping, table, Technology, widow
I’ve been looking for ages for a narrow table to go behind the couch in the den…
at one point I even considered having one made by my handyperson…
then I found one that I liked the look of online and eventually decided to order it… it had a spot for a few plugs and usb ports as well…
the package arrived on Wednesday evening and my housemate took it downstairs and put it together while I was reading…
it came up on Thursday morning and went into the living room as I cleared off the table that was currently behind the couch…
after moving many pieces, the new table made it into its final spot…
electrical items were plugged in and then the plants made it onto it and the couch moved back into place…
it is the perfect height and length and looks excellent…
always happy when a project works out well…
28 Wednesday Feb 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, friends, gratitude, happy place, health, moments, plants, replete, safe, sunshine, widow
often, as I sit in the sunlight here in the living room, I take a moment to celebrate how blessed I am…
a comfortable home, food to eat, family and friends to spend time with, plants and flowers to enjoy, birds and fish to watch, books to read, and good health…
my entire being is replete with gratitude for my life…
then I take a few moments to send thoughts and prayers to so many who are currently not so lucky…
26 Monday Feb 2024
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applause, big girl pants, blessed, dad, effort, family, happy, memories, moments, sports, Technology, time, widow
I’ve spent the week watching PVRed sports on tv…
it has been so interesting to see all the technology that has improved many of the sports, from starting blocks to lights around the track showing world record speeds…
the athletics have been excellent and have brought many memories flooding back from magical times with my dad…
we used to attend events at the old Arena and had fun watching and cheering on all of the participants…
my dad really embedded the idea in my head that every person deserved applause, even if they weren’t from a team you were cheering for…
lovely memories;-)…
21 Wednesday Feb 2024
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big girl pants, blessed, cleaning, family, food, frenzy, grandson, housemate, moments, organizing, pantry, remembering, reorganizing, suppose, widow
arrived home yesterday to a cupboard cleaning frenzy…
everything had been removed from two cupboards and partially put back…
not necessarily the way I would like…
as I look at the result, it occurs to me that we use a great number of different items that I used previously, lol…
reminded me of when my beloved was off of work and doing most of the cooking… he had some bizarre idea that things should be organized the way he liked 😳…
considering that my housemate has been here for just over a year, I suppose he should have a say in how things are organized, but still🤔…
and then we dealt with the pantry together…
16 Friday Feb 2024
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baking, big girl pants, blessed, cookie cutters, cutters, family, fun, holidays, memories, moments, project, shopping, sugar cookies, widow
over the last two or three weeks I’ve purchased a few different sets of Valentine cookie cutters as I’ve worked on a project…
the end result of the project didn’t turn out quite as well as I wanted, but after a lot of trial and error I was satisfied with the results…
so I decided to use the cookie cutters for their actual purpose, lol…
I made cookies for the first time in I don’t know how long…
I can’t even think of how many I have made over the years… I made them for every holiday for the girls’ classmates as well as for family and friends…
it was fun to make them again as I remembered so many I had previously produced…
they came out very nicely and we have been enjoying them…
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